“My melancholy wants to rest in the hiding places and abysses of perfection. That is why I need music.”

—The Gay Science, §368 (edited excerpt).

Fox in Autumn by Jo Grundy

“You may have only enemies whom you can hate, not despise. You must be proud of your enemy, then their successes will be yours as well.”

—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part One, “On War and Warriors” (edited excerpt).

Gare Saint Lazare, 1958 by Édouard Boubat

The dream scene in 8 ½ Federico Fellini

The human heart stripped of fat and muscle, with just the angel veins exposed.

Trondheim, Norway, 1947.

The 12th Duke of Mandas, Ricardo de la Huerta y Avial , circa 1906.

After all, he said to himself, it's probably only insomnia.
Many must have it.

"It is destiny that I must live this way, always in a fever pitch, in the throes of indescribable restlessness, thirsting with desire, with thousands of desires that are stranger than the next, torn to shreds by love, tortured by art, a mad dreamer bearing a beating heart amidst an impassive crowd, and inevitably find new torments in new things. I live in confusion and work with the same ardour with which I swing the sword, or laze about in long, exhausting and languishing torpors in the slow shadows of the parlour, and avidly drink in the immense air and shining light, unrestrained, extravagant, reckless, generous, tender, in love with you, sad, merry, from one hour to the next, indomitable and untamed.”